Monotonic orthography

Monotonic orthography is a new simplified way for spelling modern Greek since 1980. The simplification considers the replacement of all the Greek accents (` grave accent, ´ acute accent, and ˝ double acute accent) by only one, the acute accent, and the total absense of the spiritua asper ̔ and lenis ̓.

The simplification was explained by the fact that the polytonic orthography was very much complex and difficult to learn by the students: those diacritics had no significance in modern speech, rather than giving some fossilised etymological information about the words and the archaic pronunciation. The simplification was frowned upon by many conservatives.